What next? Smallpox blankets available at the multiplex?

[boyofbadgers]

"Peckham is the land of the free. It’s like a blank canvas," said Hannah Barry, an enterprising 26-year-old

I suppose you could make a case for this being an unusual outbreak of honesty regarding urban colonisation, but I strongly suspect that she doesn't even realise what she's saying.

(Thanks to alexmacpherson for the link.)

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

My friend Pip once overheard a Camberwell student walk into a nail salon and ask for "ghetto nails" :o

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Nnnng. I shouldn't get so wound up about this sort of thing - everyone was young and stupid at some point, we've all said stuff we would later regret, etc, etc - but the sheer unthinkingness of it all really gets to me. You'd hope that all that education would provide some degree of self-awareness. Apparently not.

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

26 = really not that young, though!

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Well, no! I know I'm obvs fantastic but that's FOUR YEARS older than me ie: nearly Kat's age.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I increasingly think that getting wound up about idiocy is much healthier than just going "who cares" and letting idiocy pass unremarked.